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From: legion@werple.net.au
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:19:52 +1100 (EST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:19:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Moon 'Photos'?

Hi James..

> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:25:40 -0500
> From: James Easton <100626.2242@compuserve.com>
> Subject: UFO UpDate: Re: Moon 'Photos'?
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

> Regarding...

> >Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:57:35
> >Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Moon 'Photos'?
> >From: Bob Rickard <bob@forteana.win-uk.net>

> Bob Rickard commented, of 'Fortean Times' said:


>         We are seeking rebuttals from any NASA scientists,
> astronomers or anyone who has special knowledge of lunar photography
> or the Apollo programme. If anyone can refer me to some expert of this
> nature, who'll venture a paragraph or two of response, please let me
> know.<


> Bob,

> I trust Bob Shell will not mind if I cross-post the following in
> response to your request.

 [...]

>        "I don't know who this crackpot is, but regardless of his
> claimed credentials, he's either a photographic moron, a liar, a
> practical joker  or crazy. Because his photographic comments are the
> most astonishing load of total nonsense.

I wonder what he _really_ thinks?

 [...]

>         I am not amused. Maybe this is how you like to waste your
> time. I don't. Frankly, I found Dick Hoagland's Face on Mars a lot
> more credible  and at least had a good time proving it wasn't a "face".
> This wasn't even good intellectual exercise".

> I believe this qualifies as a rebuttal.

Thanks for posting this.

One of my favourite luna(tic?) stories goes back to the 10th
anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  A national radio program,
'The Science Show', invited listeners to send in comments on what the
moon landing meant to them.  One gentleman's contribution was
particularly interesting.

He claimed that as he sat up in early hours, waiting for Neil
Armstrong to step down from the LEM, in the corner of the TV screen
he saw an object roll into view.  A moment later he heard a loud
expletive uttered in an American accent.  As he watched a bare arm
reached into shot and removed an empty Coca-Cola bottle.  A-ha!  Right
then he realized that the moon landing was all a hoax!  Man never went
to the moon, he told us, because "They" would never permit it.  In
fact, "They" barely tolerated astronauts in orbit, and should NASA or
the Russians ever venture out of Earth orbit "They" would deal with
them.  (Yes, I checked the calendar.  The program was not broadcast on
April 1st.)

Unfortunately we were never told who "They" were, or why no video of
the Coke bottle retrieval was ever found.  More importantly, we
were never told why anyone bothered to mic the lunar set so we'd be
able to hear the swearing of the technician in the first place.

While a lot of people will accept the views of the JPL expert you've
quoted, there'll still be those who'll see "fakery" in the moon
landings -- not to mention Coke bottles rolling along the lunar
surface.


Thanks,
       John "Houston, Tranquility *burp!* Base Here"


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